Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...

A one-minute walk through history provided the visuals for a recruitment ad for the U.S. Secret Service that aired at ...

Bravely eccentric two-hander about Mary Todd Lincoln, Civil War-era first lady of the United States Abraham Lincoln was ... him capture her essence in his photographs. She is having none of ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

According to the photo's caption, pictured here are "A Rockwitz (312lbs), comedian Eddie Carvey (250lbs), David Burns (475lbs ...

A Shreveport museum is honoring the history of the city’s first bank for freedmen by displaying a special exhibit during ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln ... looked at the photo after I reread the speech that he gave. The speech is exhausted. The Civil War had been ...

Late photographer David Johnson’s journey took him from Jacksonville to the Navy, ultimately leading him to capture the vibrant Black culture in San Francisco’s historic Fillmore District and document ...